First Lieutenant Charles A. Saroteno (Cemarillo, Cellf.) displays a captured Commiat Chinese K-47 sub-machine gun during Operation SRAIL BLAZER on October 21, 1965. This weapon was obtained after a firefight with retreating Viet Cong forces. The photograph was taken by 10pl. Costello and is part of the collection documenting American military activities during the Vietnam War.

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